“A successful firing test shows that Europe’s lightweight Vega launcher is well on its way to cheaper and more efficient launches in 2025,” reports Space.com, citing officials at the European Space Agency (ESA). “3D printing has changed rocket development by greatly reducing upfront manufacturing time,” argues Popular Mechanics: The new part belongs to Vega’s M10 engine, which the ESA hopes to…
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Automakers, Tesla and SpaceX Explore Working on Ventilators
“Just had a long engineering discussion with Medtronic about state-of-the-art ventilators,” Elon Musk tweeted on Saturday. Medtronic tweeted that the talks also involved Tesla. And TechCrunch notes that Musk tweeted on Friday that both Tesla and SpaceX employees are “working on ventilators…”:
His confirmation on Twitter that both of the companies he leads are working on ventilators comes a day after New…
A New Use For McDonald’s Used Cooking Oil: 3D Printing
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Professor Andre Simpson had a problem. The University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus was paying through the nose for a crucial material for its 3D printer. Few would have guessed McDonald’s would come to the rescue. Simpson is director of the school’s Environmental NMR Center dedicated to environmental research. Central to this research is…
What’s new on Coursera for Business – January 2020
By Kyle Clark, Senior Skills Transformation Consultant 2020 is already proving to be an exciting year for skill development on Coursera. Our university and industry partners launched over 60 courses in January – an average of 2 courses per day. Our new courses range in topic from IT automation and feature engineering to visual analytics, […]
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Robert Cringely Attempts an Air-Launching Space Startup
“How does a 67-year-old hack with three minor children recover from going blind, losing his home and business in a horrible fire (like 2,000 others, we are still fighting with insurance companies), while appeasing an angry crowd of Kickstarter supporters armed with pitchforks and shovels?” That crowd still wants long-time tech pundit Robert X. Cringely to deliver on his Kickstarter-funded project…
Listen to the groaning voice of a 3000-year-old Egyptian mummy
By recreating a mummy’s vocal tract through 3D printing, we now know what an ancient Egyptian priest sounded like Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2230840-listen-to-the-groaning-voice-of-a-3000-year-old-egyptian-mummy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
New Micro 3D Printing Technology Wins Prestigious NZ Engineering Award
Long-time Slashdot reader ClarkMills quotes New Zealand’s Innovation Agency: New 3D printing technology creating highly detailed objects, smaller than a strand of human hair, has won the 2019 ENVI Engineering Innovation Award (Engineering New Zealand Awards). Micromaker3D, powered by breakthrough Laminated Resin Printing (LRP), makes it easy and more accessible to create detailed submillimetre structures for applications such as sensors, wearables,…
Da Vinci Bridge Design Holds Up Even After 500 Years, MIT Proves
Researchers at MIT have proven that Leonardo da Vinci knew what he was doing when he came up with a novel bridge design that would connect Istanbul with its neighbor city Galata. At the time, it would’ve been the world’s longest bridge, with an unprecedented single span of 790 feet — constructed without wood planks or even mortar joints. But, unfortunately,…
Startup That Aims To 3D-Print Rockets Says It’s Fully Funded For Its First Commercial Missions
Aerospace startup Relativity Space — the company that aims to launch the first fully 3D-printed rocket to orbit — says it has raised all of the money it needs to launch its first mission and then enter commercial operations as early as 2021. After raising $140 million in its latest funding round, Relativity says its total funding now equals $185 million,…
The Next Energy-Efficient Architecture Revolution: A House Built By Robots
“Erecting a new building ranks among the most inefficient, polluting activities humans undertake,” reports Qz. “The construction sector is responsible for nearly 40% of the world’s total energy consumption and CO2 emissions, according to a UN global survey. A consortium of Swiss researchers has one answer to the problem: working with robots.” Over four years, 30 different industry partners joined a…